asthma attack symptoms please help?

[natbornsirvivr]

i was recentley told i had asthma and was given a flovent inhaler and was told too puff it twice in morning and twice at night well today i was walking in the house and started coughing and chokeing very bad too the point i was dry heaveing and could not breath my friend told me that was an asthma attack of some sort is this true , i wasnt told too use my inhaler if anything happened wasnt even warned that anything could happen
was this indeed a asthma attack

[dasc]

If you were given Flovent to use you should also have been given a "rescue inhaler", like Albuterol. The Flovent is a maintenance drug, to try to prevent asthma attacks. But if you become short of breath, it will do nothing for you. You need to get a bronchodilator-Albuterol, Combivent or Xopenex. These will help you when you become short of breath.